Yesterday I posted on the Comics Grid blog a call for papers for a digital comics panel to take place within the Academic Programme of Loncon 3, 72nd World Science Fiction Convention.
I have copied and pasted the call below.
Call for Papers
Diversity in Speculative Fiction: Digital Comics Panel
Loncon 3, 72nd World Science Fiction Convention
Thursday 14 to Monday 18 August 2014, London, UK
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The academic programme at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, is offering the opportunity for academics from across the globe to share their ideas with their peers and other convention attendees.
To reflect the history and population of the host city, London, United Kingdom, the theme of the academic programme is “Diversity”.
This is a call for academic papers on digital comics. Proposals are particularly welcome on the works (and adaptations of the work) of the Guests of Honour, London as a location and under-represented areas of research in digital comics, particularly those fitting within the ‘speculative fiction‘ label.
By digital comics we mean any comics (printed or not) making uses of digital technologies, as well as media-specific comics made to be read on digital devices (online comics, webcomics, motion comics, mobile comics). Examples of these may include, but are not limited to:
- Digital comics: media, medium, form, genre?
- Digital comics and market diversity in the comics publishing industry
- Digital archives of comics and questions of digitisation and preservation
- London, geolocation, psychogeography and mobile comics
- Connections between computer technologies and speculative fiction in digital comics
- Adaptation, translation and transmediality in digital comics
- Representation of alternative bodies, gender and sexual orientations in digital comics
- Digital comics by black and ‘minority ethnic’ authors and publishers
- Representation of characters of different ethnic origin in digital comics
- Social class and digital comics: issues of access, representation, production
- Approaches to non-English language digital comics
The deadline for submission is 31 December 2013.
Participants will be notified by 1 February 2014.
All presenters must have acquired convention membership by 1 May 2014.
Please read the Academic Programme’s Frequently Asked Questions.
Abstracts will be included in the Academic Programme Book, which will be available to download from the Loncon website, and selected papers might be invited for submission to an edited volume showcasing the diversity of scholarship in current academic research and The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
To propose a paper (presentations should not exceed 20 minutes), please submit a 300 word abstract to Ernesto Priego at Ernesto.Priego.1@city.ac.uk.
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